St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-22
TIE STAINED RING.
How Jessie Rue Learned the DIFF.
ference Between Two Men.


Jessie Rue was %. The sun of that
birthday had just risen, and she stood be-
fore her looking-glass, fastening in her ears
and about her dainty wrists the pearls that
had been her uncle's gift the night before.
Pinning a coquettish little bow in her
hair, Jessie left the glass and ran down.
stairs and out into the garden, where she
always spent an hour before breakfast. A
gentleman was there already-a pleasant
looking man. who wore large hat of Pan
anna straw and collar that exposed his
handsome throat.
Good morning, Miss Rue" DR.. Manly
cried, taking off his big hat. Il have come
to beg some flowers for patient"
You must always help yourself to flow
ers for your sick folk. and | shall be prouder
of my garden than BEFORE" said Jessie.
LEND HE your knife"
And when he had opened it for her she
cut him bouquet fragrant and beautiful,
and arranged it with unerring taste, and
made him hold it while she bound it to-
gether with some silk from reel she had
in her embroidered apron pocket. he look
ing at her with admiration all the while.
When at last he thanked her and went
away Jessie laughed.
IL don't believe in your patient. DR..
NdHIy, Suc Sdlu W utISell. II was only
excuse to see me.
And she thought so every morning when
he came for his flowers. She saw him
oftenest in the morning. Ashley Honey
i well she met when she visited at teas and
dancing parties. How often Jessie wished
the two men could be changed in some way
Ashley was the man she intended to choose,
'~but sometimes that light in the dark-gray
eyes under the doctors great straw hat
made her wish that he was Ashley and
Ashley he.
Time passed. Some little things hap
pened. Ashley had openly declared his
admiration. They were on the very point
of being engaged, and the doctor suddenly
ceased to be lover-like. He came for the
flowers still, but she knew now that he did
not do it that he might meet her. He took
them to patient. Once, taking long
walk, she had paused at little cottage on
the roadside to ask for drink of cool we'll
water, and had seen, in great chair near
the door, girl as lovely as an angel.
though she was evidently still quite ILL.,
Near her. in great glass pitcher, stood a
bouquet of flowers that Jessie thought she
recognized as those she had pIucked that
morning in her own garden.
'"IhoSe flowers are beautiful, are thew
not?" the sick girl asked of Jessie, while
the little boy ran for fresh water "a
dear friend brings them to me every day.
He says lady has told him l may have
all L want. He brings them long way.
The lady must be very rich. | think. l
fancy her old, misunderstanding
like my grandmother in her pretty lace CAD.
/ have all sorts of fancies in this invalid
chair"
Then the nurse came in and Jessie said
good-by.
HE has not even described me-" she
thought; land, oh how lovely the girl is!''
And then she found herself crying. That
evening she engaged herself to Ashley
Honeywell.
The doctor came for his flowers; she
picked them for him, but she did not smile
as she used, nor did he look into her eyes,
With every motion of the hand that held
the flowers which she cut he saw the flash
OF Ashley HoneyWelFS engagement ring.
One morning, as she sat at work upon her
porch, a boy hurried up the path. She re-
membered him as the child who had brought
the water in that pretty cottage parlor
where she had seen the beautiful invalid to
whom DR.. Manly took her flowers.
rs the doctor here-Dr. Manly?n he
asked Il was told he might be. Miss
Gwendoline is dying, Aunt Jane says. Oh.
HISS, IL YOU oilly call tell me where to ind
him. He'll save her, if anybody can"
The child was crying. Jessie was trou-
Dled and agitated.
1.-The doctor must be on his round of
visits" she said. ''Fll send Jack to Iool,
for him."
She called the lad who helped the gar
dener and babe him 60 with the little fell
low and search for the doctor; and then
she hastily donned her riding habit and
rode away toward the cottage-why, she
did not know, OIL whether she could do any
good, but her heart babe her go.
She alighted at the door and entered in
haste. The girl sat in her chair; the old
nurse stood behind her.
You have Gomez said the girl. ssl
am so glad-so glad. They came this
morning. l saw both of them. You DOM
know, perhaps. Mother smiled; fathe,
looked stern; but they will forgive me aftel
while; they are both dead. but they came
/ saw them"
SIN dream?" asked Jessie.
NO." said Gwendolne. Their spirits
came. Think how strange that was. You
know, was engaged to my cousin, DR..
Manly?"
NO" said Jessie: ST did not know"
81 was" said Gwendoline, ''but Tilted
him. He was not handsome. He was